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A GEORGIA TECH has withdrawn from the Southeastern Conference, a step we ad­vocated rather strongly in these pages last September. Now that the event has taken place, we find ourselves suddenly very sentimental about the conference that Coach Alex helped start back in 1933. We are not, however, harboring any doubts about the wisdom of the break. It was something that had to be done, and we realize that this with­drawal will no more destroy the con­ference than it will Georgia Tech.

We do believe, though, that the SEC as we knew it in 1963 is doomed. The looming face of athletic integration at Kentucky and possibly some other schools in the conference may be just a tad more than some of the schools will be able to swallow when the time comes.

* * * A TECH'S WITHDRAWAL had nothing to do with this problem. If that had been any part of the reason, President Harri­son would have just waited until the battle arrived over some school signing a Negro athlete in a major sport and helped preside over the dissolution of the conference. Tech withdrew on aca­demic grounds, and President Harrison's statement of January 24, the day of action, reflected the fact that the 140 rule was not the sole reason why Tech took this action termed "drastic" by many writers in the area. The fact that President Harrison withdrew before the presidents even voted on the 140 rule further emphasized that the Institute was committed to withdrawal. Here is that statement:

"The Georgia Institute of Technology has withdrawn from membership in the Southeastern Conference. My oral resignation and its acceptance occurred at the Conference's Business Meeting just prior to the consideration of changes in the conference's constitution and by­laws. Tech chose to withdraw before these deliberations to assure that her action would not be considered as re­flecting disapproval of any specific action of the conference.

"Circumstances related to Tech's technologically oriented educational pro­grams and the admissions requirements associated with these programs were

primarily responsible for my action. Tech's entrance requirements have had the effect of requiring that more of the scholar-athletes are capable of doing the level of work necessary to remain at Tech through graduation. These circum­stances make a limit on the total num­ber of athletic grants-in-aid impractical.

"Our action neither indicates nor im­plies criticism of other institutions or of the conference, but rather acknowledges a uniqueness of our situation."

* * * A PRESIDENT HARRISON requested that the official termination date of Tech's membership in the SEC be June 30, 1964. But he added that the Institute would abide by any decision on a termination date that the presidents of the conference suggested. The SEC im­mediately accepted the resignation and the suggested date. And a new era of athletics began on the "flats."

This action was not taken in anger or in haste. It had been talked about in campus circles for the past three or four years. As is the man's usual custom, President Harrison discussed the prob­lem with members of his staff and with the athletic board at length before taking this step.

* * * A BUT if there was an instant of time when the final, never-turn-back decision was made it had to be in the vicinity of 11:30 A.M. on January 14, 1964. At that time, President Harrison outlined his plans for potential action at the SEC meeting for the approval or disapproval of the Tech faculty. After the presenta­tion, a long-time member of the faculty not noted for pro-athletic tendencies leaped to his feet and with the traditional words, "hear . . . hear," closed the lid on Tech's association with a conference it helped organize. Not a soul spoke against the president's plans, a rare thing at a Tech faculty meeting. For instance, during the next 15 minutes of the same meeting strong dissenting voices were heard from the floor on two other pro­posals by the president that had nothing to do with the athletic program.

A TECH'S departure from the league was greeted by almost as many different

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types of reaction as there are SEC mem­bers. This was to be expected. But the biggest surprise of the entire proceedings was Commissioner Bernie Moore's state­ment: "Tech will live to regret the move. Both the conference and Tech, in my opinion, have been damaged."

It wasn't what the commissioner said that surprised us, it was the fact that he said anything at all. Although we don't agree with the man in this instance, we have to admire the fact that he is now taking up positive thinking.

The simple truth of the matter is that Tech from president to coaches and from faculty to students generally felt that this was the only course open to it. It was done for this reason and no other.

* * * A TECH'S schedule will still carry most of the long-time opponents from the conference for years to come. This year, the Jackets face Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Auburn, Tulane, Alabama, and Georgia from within the league, and the follow­ing year, all but Alabama return to the schedule. In future years, Tech fans will be seeing the likes of Navy, Penn State, Notre Dame, Miami, and other na­tional names at Grant Field. But both Auburn and Georgia have indicated that the Tech break from the SEC will have no bearing on future athletic relations with the Jackets. The other schools Tech considers as natural rivals have made no statements as of this writing.

The fact remains that the decision has been made and the action taken. Noth­ing any one says or prints at this moment will change this or the minds of those involved in the entire affair. Only time will tell whether or not the decision was a sound one.

* * * A SPEAKING of withdrawals, Tech has just lost one of the top men on its athletic staff. Charlie Tate, head of the defense for the past three years and a member of the football staff since 1956, has accepted the head coaching job at Miami. Tate, one of the finest football minds we have ever encountered, will be missed, and Miami is indeed fortunate to get him. He will be missed for several reasons and heading the list is his en­thusiasm for football and people.

Tech fans will get to see Charlie in action as a head coach on September 26 when the Hurricanes blow in to town for the first time since 1955.

Replacing Charlie is Jim Carlen, a Tech graduate who has been an assistant to Charlie since 1961. Carlen, called by Bobby Dodd, "One of the finest foot­ball minds of all the young coaches I have known," will have his work cut out for him. Knowing the man's determina­tion, he will get the job done. B. W.

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FEBRUARY 1964

GEORGIA TECH Volume 42

A L U M N U S Number 5

CONTENTS 2. RAMBLIN'—the Tech withdrawal from the SEC

reviewed by the editor with one man's opinion underscored.

7. No DEARTH OF ROUTES—Tech can go several ways at this stage of its life. Alumnus Jim Pea­cock, now a bureau chief of Business Week points out the path he thinks his Alma Mater should follow.

11. TECH'S EYES ON THE SATURN—a Tech research group assembled and manned the photographic eyes and special optical equipment used in the biggest shot of them all.

12. A MINORITY OF ONE—staff writer Frank Bigger files a bitter report on one of the observation sites.

14. THE BIG FIRE—Tech's Post Office goes up in smoke.

18. DYNATOMICS, INC.—another company grows out of Tech.

20. No PLACE LIKE HOME—the basketball team has its troubles on the road.

22. GEORGIA TECH JOURNAL—all the latest news on the Institute and the alumni by classes.

Officers of the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association

W. S. Terrell, '30, Pres. M. F. Cole, '41, VP D. A. McKeever, '32, VP W. H. Ector, '40, Treas.

W. Roane Beard, '40, Executive Secretary

Bob Wallace, Jr., '49, Editor Bill Diehl, Jr., Chief Photographer

Mary Jane Reynolds, Editorial Assistant Tom Hall, '59, Advertising Mary Peeks, Class Notes

THE COVER r: GEORGIA TECH

On the night of January 21, the campus was hit by a fire that could have been the most disastrous one in its 76-year history. Fortunately, the At-laHta Fire Department confined the flames to the Post Office— a building originally erected in 1898 to cut down the threat of fire to the Old Shop Building which itself had been destroyed in 1892.

Photo—Bill Sumits, Jr.

Published eight times a year—February. March. May, July, September, October, November and December*—by the Georgia Tech National Alumni Association, Georgia Institute of Technology; 225 North Ave­nue, Atlanta, Georgia. Subscription price (35c per copy) included in the membership dues. Second class postage paid at Atlanta, Georgia.

THE FACE OF GEORGIA TECH

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LAST YEAR, the old Tech rifle range collapsed and all of the remains of the building were hauled away, leaving only a concrete slab in back of the Beta house. Tech students eyed the smooth surface for weeks trying to figure out what it could be used for. When the cold weather struck the campus on January 13, the students looked out at a frozen surface with exceptionally good ice-skating potential. A

group of them immediately flooded the area and the next morning they had their own ice rink right in the middle of the campus. Alumnus photographer Bill Sumits, Jr. wandered by and caught a couple of them enjoying a morning skate before classes. The next morning, the sun came back and the ice departed leaving the concrete slab to still challenge the students' ingenuity.

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But Jim eacock, Math 1958, now Boston bureau chief for Busines Week, says that Tech can only consider one road

I T WASN'T THE FIRST TIME I'd been back to Georgia Tech since graduation, but it my was first Homecoming as an alumnus. Anyway, it was the first critical look

I had bothered to take since my senior year, when some of us on the Technique and Rambler were ready to jump at the drop of a hat and blast Georgia Tech about something —anything.

My previous visits, I suppose, had been for football weekends when all that mattered was a good game, the whisde, and a few friends at a party. Those weekends were an excuse for having a vacation in Atlanta. This time there was a good game, and the whisde should have blown, al­though some Tech pranksters decided to borrow it. But these things, enjoyable as they were, didn't seem to have the same importance. With my first class reunion coincid­ing with the celebration of Tech's 75 years of existence, the visit seemed more businesslike.

Tech still looked familiar, yet different. The old land­marks were there; the modern new buildings were impres­sive. The school, though, seemed more to bask in the accomplishments of its first 75 years than to give great promise for the future.

Certainly, all the new buildings and facilities make Tech in reality what I thought it to be during my undergraduate years—the best technical school in the Southeast, and one of the nation's leading undergraduate engineering colleges. But this description—which I consider accurate—accounts for the turmoil and frustration that I sensed from faculty, administration, and students during my visit this fall.

Georgia Tech seems about to be facing up to the sweep­ing wave of change in engineering education that has washed down many sand castles across the country during the last five or six years.

As at many other schools, the Tech community—students and faculty alike—is beginning to realize that just an under­graduate program isn't enough. More master and doctoral candidates are being asked for by industry. Also, many engineering schools are beginning to realize that to offer up-to-date information, a faculty must spend a sizeable portion of its time doing research. And this takes money, a commodity that is probably Georgia Tech's foremost problem at the moment.

But something has to be done. Our school is at a cross­roads, and the alternatives are simple: Grow into a well-recognized national institution, or drop by the wayside.. Tech, however, must take the route of growth, and the present faculty seems dedicated to make sure of it. There is, in fact, a tremendous amount of pressure just below the surface. Many people worry a lot about Tech's position.

They understand the situation and will undoubtedly push our school in the right direction.

And President Edwin D. Harrison—who presentiy must spend far too much time trying to squeeze money out of the Georgia State Legislature and the Board of Regents— puts his finger on the central problem when he says: "If Tech is to continue leading the Southeast, it must grow to national significance."

The Education Revolution To understand what Dr. Harrison and others mean, it is

necessary to take a look at what is going on in engineering education across the country. It is impossible to talk critically about Tech—in fact to say anything about it except to list unrelated facts—with examining the upheaval that has occurred in education during the last five or six years.

Undercurrents of concern about education started back in the mid-1950's, when, among other things, some far-thinking educators started the Physical Science Study Com­mittee with a grant from the National Science Foundation and administration by the Massachusetts Institute of Tech­nology. This early move to upgrade education, however, was scarcely being felt in Georgia at the time of my grad­uation.

The nation, in general, didn't really begin to realize the importance of technical education until Sputnik went up in the fall of 1957. That was my senior year; and although some heads started turning, we didn't worry too much about the significance of Sputnik, and our educational pro­gram at Tech wasn't affected. We, the class of 1958, were perhaps the last class to really go through school in the pre-Sputnik era.

The Soviet accomplishment—which awakened America —meant, in fact, only one thing to my personal educa­tional program at Georgia Tech: In Dr. Wyly's Newtonian physics course, we took the liberty of studying the classical dynamics of bodies in orbit rather than the previous years' seemingly more practical option—the study of billiard ball collisions on a perfect pool table.

I doubt if it meant much more to others in my class. By 1958, however, people began to believe that space,

science, and technology were most important. In very short order, the public complained, members of government screamed, and a few college professors wiped the windows of their ivory towers and realized that high school students were being given only bits and pieces of scientific disciplines.

Some of the nation's college professors, through PSSC,

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began to develop high school courses that emphasized the overlying principles of science and math rather than the techniques for solving mostiy outmoded exercises. And very soon, parents were shocked when their offspring started coming home and asking questions about set theory and Einstein's theory of relativity.

As a result, today, over one-third of the high school stu­dents in the nation are taking courses in the "new mathe­matics," the "new physics," and the "new chemistry." Actually, these students are learning the central notions of these subjects as they are known today, not the ideas of some 50 years ago.

Now, in fact, these "progressive" ideas are being applied to the less exact social and human sciences. Some stu­dents, for example, now learn the sociology of different periods of history by reconstructing all the forces brought to bear on important events. As a specific example of this technique, the student of the future might be taught about the conditions of the early 1960's by reconstructing the events leading up to the Cuban Crisis of 1962.

This approach to secondary education, and the increased importance given education by government and industry, has created some tremendous challenges for the nation's universities. They are, in effect, being squeezed from two directions: Entering freshmen are better qualified to learn, and future employers—government or industry—expect a better product.

Our school offers a good example. At Tech, the educa­tion revolution has had two primary effects. It has pro­vided students who, even in the face of stricter entrance requirements, score some 12% better on their College Board scores than they did just five years ago. But more importantly, it has challenged the Georgia Tech faculty. Tech teachers today must offer courses that involve the forefront of technology and actually challenge students to move ahead; otherwise, the students will not be prepared for an active role in their society.

But being able to do this gives the faculty many prob­lems. In a nutshell, the problem is: research. To keep abreast of current technology, a faculty member must be doing research; to keep good researchers, a school must give faculty members time for research and graduate stu­dents to assist him; to develop a research-oriented graduate school, a university needs money. I fear that Tech isn't going about this whole syndrome correctiy, although it has increased the number of graduate students from 424 to 763 in the past five years.

Most of the nation's big research schools admit, candidly, that their whole graduate and research progam is, essen­tially, supported by the Federal Government. Whether this policy is admirable, it seems to be a fact of life, and I cannot help but wonder why Georgia Tech doesn't try harder to follow the same route.

In his annual report for 1963, Dr. Harrison, understand­

ably, spent most of his efforts trying to sell the Legislature and Board of Regents on the importance of giving Tech more money per capita than the other schools in the Uni­versity System. Certainly no "loyal son of Tech" can com­plain about this, since Harrison certainly has the best inter­ests of Georgia Tech at heart.

But we can legitimately ask if this is the only—or even correct—way for Tech to get research money. State funds are needed for construction and general education. The percentage of research supported by the federal government at Georgia Tech is roughly the same as it was five years ago, and this is not true of the national average.

I wonder whether Tech's approach is correct. Dr. Harri­son talks often of the need to develop better faculty and better research capability. This may, admittedly, be a matter of semantics, but the implication is that these are two sep­arate fields. The simple fact is that a good faculty is one that is doing research.

MIT, for example, has found that without research no graduate program would be possible—and that school now has about five graduate students for every seven undergrad­uates. Most of the research money there comes from the Federal Government ( 87%) , as it does at Tech ( 7 5 % ) . The principal difference is that MIT, with slighdy fewer students than Georgia Tech, gets well over five times as much research money.

Comparing research-oriented MIT with striving Georgia Tech may seem unfair or even false. I'll grant that it is ambitious. But Georgia Tech doesn't get even half the re­search money as the 20 or 30 best supported schools in the nation. Money isn't the only answer, but it is at the heart of many of Tech's problems. And the fact is that to rank as an important national school, Georgia Tech simply has to have much more research money.

Upgrading the Grad

The picture at Georgia Tech, however, isn't all bad, and I point out short-comings primarily to put Tech in con­text. I believe we all want Tech to be a better school. Tech is certainly up-to-date in much of its thinking. As a case in point, Tech has recognized the responsibility of tech­nical schools to provide continuing education (or re-educa­tion) for its alumni.

About 100 of us had a chance to sample this concept at the all-day seminar held the Friday before the Homecom­ing festivities began. This meeting was touched on in a previous issue of the Alumnus, but I think a few personal observations are in order.

For one thing, Bud Foote is to be praised for attempting —quite successfully—a folk song concert at 9:30 in the morning. Twelve hours later, it would probably have been much easier for him. But he started the program off well for us, and one of his comments seemed to tie the entire day together.

In discussing one of the songs, Bud pointed out that

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Author Peacock, second from the right, takes in one of the sessions during Tech's 1963 Alumni Institute. Once student editor of the Rambler, Peacock joined McGraw-Hill after a stint in the Navy.

none of the verses really followed each other, but that taken as a whole, they told a story. I thought about this remark during the day, and decided that it was true of the seminar, and to a great extent it described Tech. Much of technical education does tell a story when it is looked at as a whole, and one of the challenges for today's uni­versity professor is to give his students this total picture.

Back at the seminar, it was time for the impossible tran­sition from folk songs to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The only thing in common between the performing Eng­lish professor—so wrapped up in the appreciation of Amer­icana—and the shy chemistry professor, Dr. Peter Sherry —eager to explain the inner mysteries of life—was their enthusiasm. But through this they not only informed their audience; they also portrayed a Tech that is determined to give its students the best possible education and finally emerge into national significance.

When the seminar continued after a luncheon, Dr. Ver­non Crawford zeroed in on the basic subject that had turned education around just a few years earlier—space. His talk about the universe beyond our solar system made us all pause and think. And the closing team report about Tech's efforts in South America brought us all back to reality. It was gratifying to hear that some Tech students had gone back home to Colombia, had tried to help their country by starting a technical school, and had called on Georgia Tech to assist.

All in all, the extra day for Homecoming was well spent. I found it challenging, as did most of those who attended. And school officials dubbed it the most successful Alumni Institute in Tech's history. I would certainly encourage all alumni to attend this sort of meeting every time they can.

And I would also encourage Georgia Tech to hold more. The problem of continuing education is growing each year, and as Dr. Hanison points out, it will soon be necessary for Tech to operate a continuing education center. It would

provide conferences and short courses in both Atlanta and other industrial areas of the state. This certainly is one of Tech's obligations to its alumni and to the community in which it lives.

In the meantime, however, I would especially encourage Tech to continue the excellent series of symposia it held in connection with the 75th Anniversary celebration. During the last year or so I have been very heartened by the reports of the various meetings, and hope that I don't have to wait until, say, 1988 to see something similar.

Conferences with authorities from industry, government, and other universities should be held on the Tech campus as often as possible. For one thing, they allow people from outside Georgia to know what Tech is doing. For another, the interchange is invaluable to Tech's own faculty. Both of these relationships will help Tech in achieving its goals.

Some Good Impressions Probably the most noticeable academic change during

the last five years at Georgia Tech is that Industrial Man­agement is no longer a "crip course" as indeed it shouldn't be. I was most pleased, in talking to several junior and senior IM majors, to be quizzed at length about graduate study—how important is it, how various schools ranked, how to get in.

Also, Georgia Tech's awareness of the computer is quite thrilling. When I was at Tech, very few students even knew the school had a computer center. What a pleasure it was to be told that Tech's goal is to have every student take a course in which he uses a computer—and not just exercises. This shows real insight into where industry is going, the sort of insight that is necessary to send forth good grad­uates. Tech students, in fact, will probably find that their ability to use a computer will be as valuable to them as the knowledge of the slide rule was to their fathers.

Our society is headed straight toward a complete de­pendence on "logical power," just as now we depend on electrical power. And this situation is not far off. Already, at several schools in the country, students and researchers can sit at their desks or in a classroom and—with a Tele­type machine—dial directly into a powerful computer, using it at leisure while it serves many terminals simul­taneously.

At Tech, plans for the same sort of setup are being made, and the hardware isn't far behind. Just this fall the Com­puter Center got a new, powerful computer, and at least one remote station should be in operation by the end of this academic year. The primary thing slowing Tech down here again is money, and some healthy research projects would certainly speed up the availability of a time-sharing system —as such a program is called—at Georgia Tech.

In another area, one that will likely call more and more on Tech's computer facilities, Georgia Tech is at the fore­front. This is the area of information science, in which graduate programs have been set up. In the process of

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defining this program, Tech—under a NSF grant—has con­ducted two conferences on the training of science informa­tion specialists. These were attended by information special­ists from all over the country, and are the sort of thing that Tech would do well to have more of.

As we all know, the "information problem" gives us fits. More has been added to man's store of published knowledge in the last 20 years than in the whole previous history of mankind, and simply knowing what has been written—much less what it says—is getting to be a major problem.

Some schools such as Harvard and MIT have decided that the problem should be attached with a fundamental or general approach. To this end, they are establishing re­search programs which they hope will eventually lead to a program of instruction. At Georgia Tech and some other schools, however, a more pragmatic approach is being taken.

Tech feels there is a current need for science librarians, technical literature analysts, and information scientists. Therefore, in the fall of 1963, Tech established a School of Information Science to award graduate degrees. The program deals with "the problems of organizing, con­trolling, and using large and growing bodies of recorded knowledge in all subject fields—and especially in science and engineering."

It is through programs such as this that Georgia Tech shows a real awareness of today's problems and declares that it will be ready to meet the challenges of the future. Developing new programs, of course, takes time and money. But this sort of activity is going on at many schools, and Tech simply must increase its interchange with other in­stitutions.

Part of a Changing Society The new and exciting programs at Georgia Tech have

their counterparts at most other good engineering schools. The whole concept of technical education, in fact, is under­going major surgery, and this in turn is creating much tur­moil. Tech, in fact, may well be entering an era that could cause upheaval in the ranks.

Under major grants from the Ford Foundation, several leading schools have been completely redefining the basic principles of engineering education. The largest of these grants was a virtually unrestricted $9-million to MIT in 1959. Already, with this largest single private grant ever given to a university, MIT is ripping apart its engineering curricula. It is being up-graded to fit the better-prepared freshmen; it is being broadened to apply the systems con­cept and an interdisciplinary approach; courses are changed to hopefully prepare graduates to outlive short-lived hand­books and be ready to meet the problems of 10 and 20 years from now. As a comparison, several Tech graduates

who have gone to MIT report having to take most of the senior year courses before getting into graduate work.

And these changes will soon be moving to Tech—or at least should. Under the Ford grants, textbooks are being prepared, and will soon be widely used.

The new approach to engineering—sometimes described as teaching basic science along with the philosophy of engi­neering—is sometimes criticized. But most of the nation's leading companies say they want a man schooled in the basics rather than for a specific task. They find it much easier to teach a well-prepared man the particular job they need him for rather than have to start from the ground up with a different set of specifics. Most companies, in fact, expect to give incoming engineers one to two years of what amounts to graduate education, and to do this they want a man who knows basic scientific principles.

Today's engineer, also, needs very sound education in social science and the humanities. Society today is being influenced more and more by science and technology, and engineers are increasingly more responsible to mankind for their actions. Mathematics and the computer are finding applications in almost all phases of a company's operation, and the top-level people in progressive companies are begin­ning to ask quite technical questions rather than just saying "okay, just do it and don't bother me with the details." In fact, today, engineering is one of the accepted roads into management.

What does all this add up to for Georgia Tech: Tech needs an enlarged graduate program with time and facilities for the faculty to do research. Tech will begin to need new facilities to teach a new type of engineering and to cope with a larger number of students. Tech needs broad courses that relate science and technology to the society in which we live. For all of this, Tech needs money.

It is quite easy to see why Dr. Harrison spends so much time searching for funds and why this tone shines through his annual reports. Tech's alumni support rates high in the nation, though it could be better. But neither of these approaches offers the whole answer.

Tech's primary answer—at least for graduate work— lies apparently in getting grants and research projects from corporations and the government. This approach may be contrary to our wishes, but it is apparently an academic fact of life today. The amount of support from these sources, however, depends on Tech's ability to prove that it is really a high-caliber school.

Georgia Tech, I am sure, has the potential to do this. Some of the faculty will probably balk, but there is always resistance to change. I sincerely think that I speak for many alumni when I say that this is the only road open. If Tech does not—soon—pull itself up that last inch or so onto the peaks of the recognized national engineering schools, it may find itself slipping down into the valley of mediocrity. No longer today—with so much dependence on national organizations for support—can a university just be a good regional school. Tech must grow to national significance.

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TECH'S EYES ON SATURN CAMERAS, telescopes, and special optical devices as­

sembled and manned by personnel from Georgia Tech photographed the first flight of the Saturn space booster's second stage tested at Cape Kennedy, Fla., in late January.

The spent second stage and dummy payload, weighing a total of 38,700 pounds and measuring 84 feet, were in­jected into orbit. This launching assembly was the largest object ever placed into orbit, but there were no scientific instruments aboard.

Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala., was quick to point out, however, that the prime objective of

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the shot was not to create the giant earth satellite, but to test the Saturn I booster and its second stage, known as the S-IV.

The S-IV is a new development in rocketry. It consists of six engines fueled by liquid hydrogen. The oxydizer is liquid oxygen, often referred to by missilemen as LOX. The S-IV delivers 90,000 pounds of thrust.

The exhaust from the S-IV is peculiar in one respect. Radiations from hydrogen-oxygen engines are in the ultra­violet and infrared regions of the spectrum which, of course, cannot be seen by the human eye. This is the reason for participation in the project by Georgia Tech's Space Sciences Branch. The branch's specially equipped cameras and spectrographs were able to "see" and photograph the exhaust from the S-IV.

According to Dr. Howard Edwards, head of Tech's Space Sciences Branch, several types of information can be ob­tained by studying the rocket's exhaust. Some information can be gleaned about the behavior of the vehicle's engines as it passes through the gradually decreasing density of the earth's upper atmosphere. Conclusions can also be drawn about the motion, composition, pressure, temperature and other chemical and physical characteristics of the upper atmosphere by observing the chemical reactions within the rocket exhaust itself and the reactions with chemicals pres­

ent in the surrounding atmosphere. Edwards and his co-workers have studied the upper at­

mosphere for a number of years through the release of chemicals by rockets.

"The portion of the atmosphere from 25 to 100 miles is the most difficult to study," Edwards explained. "Pres­ent day aircraft cannot reach such altitudes to gather data, and satellites cannot fly below roughly 100 miles to gather information without being destroyed by air friction. One of the most effective means for studying this region is the release of chemicals, especially chemicals that give off radiations which can be seen from the ground."

Pointing out the importance of increasing our knowl­edge of the upper atmosphere, Edwards said: "The path­ways into space and home again are through the earth's atmosphere. The future will see man using these regions more and more. We must learn more about the outer reaches of our atmosphere if we are to mark these trails into space."

Tech's Space Sciences Branch established two stations for the Saturn launch, one at Vero Beach, south of Cape Kennedy, and the other on Grand Bahama Island, in the Atlantic southeast of the launch site.

Both sites were equipped with identical instruments, ex­cept for a Schmidt spectrograph which was used at Vero Beach. This device is a very large, very sensitive instrument set up to detect ultra-violet light. All cameras and spectro-

Frank Bigger's minority report of one ESPITE warnings that "these field trips can get rugged," Georgia Tech and

the Alumnus sent an observer to Grand Bahama Island to witness and report on activities at Air Force Tracking Site 03. The observer was soon convinced that the warnings comprised an understate­ment in the young Age of Space.

AF Tracking Site 03 is not essential in the Atlantic Missile Range scheme of things. Stating this another way, if 03 said HOLD, the missile would most likely GO.

Bob Fuller, John Kerncamp, and the observer got their first taste of British logic, which to Americans often isn't. You may not be able to phone to the next town, but you must dress for din­ner. Be available when meals are served, or go hungry. The planes don't take pas­sengers from West End to Freeport. "We just never have. It isn't done."

It's frustrating. These Subjects of the Queen don't seem to understand English.

The Atlanta trio had left the states with visions of basking in a tropical paradise to await the BIG SHOW. What developed was far from paradise. Even

the insects had gone south. It must have been a great migration. Our friends saw liberal supplies of DDT.

Save for the Grand Bahama Club, which is posh and surrounded by a seven-foot cyclone fence — leading one to imagine that the natives, who seemed friendly enough, might nevertheless, be restless — West End, Grand Bahama, is a bit backward. Public accommodations, again save for the Club, are nearly non-existant in the area.

The migrant population of the Club is well heeled and seems anxious to be­come less so. They came to the right place. They bolster their expensive diets with a considerable intake of rum punch and other, perhaps less exotic, such chemical combinations.

Well, the Grand Bahama Club put our trio out into the boondocks with a certain emphasis and authority when reservations expired in the face of an ap­proaching convention. The two space specialists managed to bunk in a house owned by Pan American, operators of AF Tracking Site 03. Third member of the party, the observer, was still out in

the cold. Thrice he tried to rent a car to look for a room, but the agent was on a typically British picnic. He had to be shuttled through miles of jungles to the boom town of Freeport. The island is clothed mostly in scrub, its once beauti­ful mantle of pine gone before the hungry axes of American industry. This, like all scrub, is ugly.

The Bahamas have just been granted partial independence from the Mother Country. There is no income tax and only a scanty property tax. The condi­tion of the roads on Grand Bahama graphically and jarringly reminds one that the government is shy of cash.

The inhabitants love big American cars and top speeds. This combination— and the fact that although one keeps to the left-hand side of the road, all the cars have left-hand steering — leaves the roadsides littered with wrecks. (It's cheaper to get another one than to move and repair the old crate.)

On the Site, the weather had been overcast, cold and windy, almost as bad as the driving conditions to Freeport. Often, a motorist encounters a native drinking party, particularly, it seems, on Sunday, and must dodge. They have a quaint and colorful custom, these natives.

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graphs were equipped with filters to cut out visible light, allowing passage of only the ultra-violet and infrared wave­lengths. All data were recorded on film. Four Tech Space Science specialists took part in the project.

Stationed at Vero Beach were Zane Frentress and Tom Hollomon. Bob Fuller and John Kerncamp manned the equipment on Grand Bahama Island.

The S-IV was carried to an altitude of 48 miles by the Saturn S-I first stage booster, a cluster of eight liquid fuel engines delivering 1.5 million pounds of thrust, when Ed­wards' teams started recording the shot. The upper stages were traveling at 6,000 miles per hour. At this point, the S-IV engine cluster ignited after separation from the booster; burned for eight minutes and propelled itself and the dummy third stages to orbital speed of approximately 17,000 miles per hour.

Edwards said his group was not able to photograph the entire ignition phase of the S-IV. At the time of burn-out, the assembly was approximately 1,000 miles from its launch pad and well below the horizon.

The Saturn assembly, known as SA-5 was the most pow­erful and most heavily instrumented rocket ever launched by the United States. It was the first of the Block II ver­sions of the vehicle in which the second stage was live and an earth orbital capability exists.

The fact that the upper stage and payload, irreverently referred to by missilemen as the "junkpile," went into orbit

with a weight of 37,700 pounds, is inconsequential to the development program.

The Saturn assembly in this test was a marvel of mechanism, a monument to American science and tech­nology. Even its launch pad is stupendous. The huge facil­ity, Launch Complex 37, two years under construction at a cost of $65 million, was employed for the first time in the shot. Its service tower is the largest movable structure in the world.

SA-5 is the fifth in a series of ten Saturn I rockets planned. The ten are split into two groups, Block I and II. The four Block I rockets, now concluded, had only the booster stage live. Beginning with SA-5, the first of Block II vehicles, all Saturns will have powered second stages with the capability of placing 20,000 or more pounds into earth orbit. Later vehicles in the series will launch early, unmanned Apollo command and service modules. Manned Apollos, however, will be launched only on Saturn Fs suc­cessors, the Saturn IB and the Saturn V. Other secondary missions have been assigned to two Saturn I's. SA-8 and SA-9 will carry large meteoroid detection satellites with 100-foot wingspan into low earth orbit to investigate the frequency and size of small space particles.

The SA-5 vehicle was 164 feet tall, about as tall as a 16-story building. It weighed around 1,124,000 pounds at liftoff. The "payload" section was filled with 11,600 pounds of sand for ballast.

You goes to the dispenser of beer, you buys your beer, and you returns to the middle of the road and drinks it! If you drinks too much, you takes a nap — with at least half of your anatomy in the roadway.

Those winds from the sea carried something more than chill. There was one awful stench. This arose from the mounds of conch shells piled on the coral "beaches." Conchs are a staple of the Bahaman native diet. Our pals were told this gastropod acts as an aphrodi­siac. Judging from the prodigious num­bers of children scampering in the brush and about shanties (that in a stiff wind probably mount to the sky like so many dry leaves before the wild hurricane) the legend seems to have merit.

Freeport is booming. It boasts a $1.5 million bunkering terminal pumping over a million barrels of marine fuel a month into vessels, while close by a subsidiary of U.S. Steel is building a $50 million cement plant. A gambling casino has opened at the brand new Lucayan Beach Hotel. This is the first venture into this sport for the islands and gambling, among other things, is expected to' help swell the ranks of tourists to a million annually by 1971. There is even an "ex­

pressway" in Freeport running from the spanking new air terminal to the business district. Tiny and typically British metal signs explain that this innovation is a "dual carriageway."

As would be expected with all this progress, it is difficult to find lodgings. There is some indication that the com­munication lines get the bad end of things from the big American cars and the narrow roads. While trying to re­serve a room, a slight pause for thought would bring a screamed "Hello, Hello, Are you there?," from the other end of the line.

Finally, our distraught observer, separated by miles of jungle and pothole roads from his observation post, located a room in a club. It was much like an American motel except that a dance pavilion was located within easy earshot of all the rooms. Our observer retired early. A calypso aggragation started in about that time and worked hard at keeping him awake until 2 a.m. They were resoundingly and devastatingly successful.

Came the dawn and the day of the shot. Shot is scrubbed by some character at Cape forgetting to open fuel line valve.

Our buddy is desperate, even a little hysterical. He is put out of his room, running out of money, and is already completely out of patience. He throws himself on the mercy of Mackey Air­lines and they move his return reserva­tion forward one day. He finally planes away after paying an item designated "Government Departure Tax." It was $2. Islanders refer to it as a "head tax." The island government could strike a psy­chological march by changing this to an "arrival tax." The uninitiated tourists are in a more agreeable frame of mind at that time.

Viewed from the air, Grand Bahama takes on a certain beauty. Maybe this is only true when one is leaving. Be that as it may, Grand Bahama, our observer wishes you well. If he comes back, don't frustrate him so cotton-picking much, and have a few more creature comforts available. You are going places. Good luck!

Two days later, back in comfortable, unfrustrating Atlanta, our observer learns that his rocket has fired success­fully. He misses the live TV coverage of the launch. But his wife is good enough to tell him how it went. Another victim of the new space age.

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THE POST OFFICE at Georgia Tech was destroyed by fire on the night of January 21. The building, which was

built originally in 1898 to eliminate the possibility of an encore of the devastating fire that flattened the Old Shop Building in 1892, has had a checkered career on campus.

It first housed the smith shop, boilers, and cupolas for the foundry, then became a warehouse, and finally after World War II it was converted to a combination Post Office and office supply store.

The fire began soon after the Tech-Georgia basketball game and within an hour hadjieft the building a smoking hulk. Atlanta firemen fought successfully to prevent the fire from spreading to adjacent structures—the IE Building and the Old Shop Building—and were cheered for their efforts by a lively crowd of students who had been attracted to the scene of the action by the spectacular flames that appeared from the dormitory viewing areas as if they were taking the entire hill. In the crowd was Alumnus photog­rapher Bill Sumits and on these pages appear his impres­sions of the evening's happenings.

The Tech students turned out in droves (right) to watch the spectacular fire that de­stroyed the 65-year-old Post Office (above).

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The following day, an enterprising student was advertising a campus function by tack­ing a sign on the building's shell (left) and all that was left of the building was rubbish.

By noon, January 22, the efficient Post Office crew had begun the Gl-style mail delivery (left) and on February 1, the stu­dents presented Postmaster Barber a watch for his dedication in keeping the mail moving.

WICK AC W OHCE AGAIH PROVES AH ADAGE-T MAIL MUST GO THROUGH

FORTUNATELY, most of the outgoing and incoming mail had been processed and picked up prior to the fire.

However, there were exceptions. The Alumni Association, for instance, hadn't received its mail containing checks from alumni for the Roll Call during that day. Any alum­nus who sent in a check to the Roll Call from January 15 through the 20 should keep watch on his cancelled checks. If your check doesn't show up by the end of February, better get in touch with the Alumni Office. And if you are a graduate of the past year who left a forwarding address with the Tech Post Office, better send your current address to the Tech postmaster. All of the forwarding file was de­stroyed in the fire.

But the immediate problem brought on by the fire was how and where to set up a temporary distribution point so that the students and faculty could continue to receive their mail. The following day at noon, the mail was distributed from the Crenshaw Field House via the ancient and hon­orable procedure known as "the GI way," as these pictures show.

FEBRUARY 1964 17

by Frank Bigger

Another company of regional importance comes from Tech

HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTECT] N IN THE AGE OF NUCLEAR INDUS RY

ANEW TECHNICAL COMPANY providing services in the field of applied nucleonics and protection against

radiation hazards has been formed in Atlanta. It could be a tremendous asset in attracting space age and nuclear in­dustries to the area.

Dynatomics, Inc., is composed of scientists and engi­neers with over 60 years total experience in the field of radiological safety. Many of the staff members of the new firm are associated with the Georgia Institute of Technology.

"The increasing use of radioactive isotopes and radition generators has created a real need for services relating to the health and safety of both the general public and those people who work with radiation," explains Boone M. Bowen, Jr., president of Dynatomics.

Dynatomics went into operation last May and is the only company in the Southeast providing commercial assistance in the control of radioactive materials. With 1,500 users of radiation already licensed by the Atomic Energy Commis­sion in the Southeast and with this number increasing by roughly 19 per cent each year, the need for checks and controls becomes all too apparent. Bowen says that Dyna­tomics, Inc., located at 180 Mills St., N.W., between Luckie and Techwood, provides safety services to industrial, medical and educational users of X-ray machines, tele­therapy units, and sealed radioactive sources. It can also perform other aids such as analytical radiochemistry, com­pliance with federal and state licensing regulations, instru­ment repair and calibration, bioassay, and facility design.

Dynatomics currently holds two AEC licenses, one for leak testing sealed radiation sources, and the other for calibration of instruments. Application is being made with AEC for a third license, one permitting Dynatomics to handle large scale decontamination assignments, to dis­pose of the resulting radioactive wastes, and to launder contaminated protective clothing.

Bowen explained that in the event of an accident in­volving radioisotopes the new license will enable Dyna­tomics to collect, store and ship radioactive wastes else­where for burial. In such an occurrence it may be neces­sary to determine the nature and extent of the radioactive material before the method of decontamination is revealed. This would require a radiochemical analysis which Dyna­tomics is equipped to perform. Decontamination might range from a mop operation to ripping out entire portions of buildings. This is governed by the type and amount of isotopes involved. Instruments on hand at the Mills Street offices include a Victoreen Condenser R Meter and a special low energy ion chamber for X-ray machine cali­brations, Geiger-Mueller counters, ionization chamber dosi­meters, a liquid scintillation counter and gamma spectro­meter, and scalers.

Bowen explained that Dynatomics now handles any as­signment involving radium and X-ray devices since it is not necessary to hold an AEC license for their use and opera­tion. He favors a current trend for states to assume all regulatory duties from the AEC since controls can be ex­tended to radium and X-rays.

Recent Dynatomics clients include Law Engineering Testing Co., Delta Airlines, DeKalb General and South Fulton hospitals, Chemstrand Corp., Kirk Dial Co., and E. V. Camp Steel Works. Bowen sees a steady buildup of the firm's activities.

Staff members are working very closely with state health departments in the Southeast with main areas of endeavor in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and North Carolina. Dynatomics' advertisements appear in the medical journals of those states. Bowen says that Dynatomics hopes to expand its coverage into West Virginia, Kentucky and Louisiana next spring.

Because of the vast territory involved and the anticipated

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expansion of the service area, three Dynatomics' staff mem­bers are taking private flying courses to increase mobility of the staff on any type of emergency call. However, the transportation must demonstrate that it will pay, Bowen observed, before Dynatomics acquires a plane of its own.

On the Dynatomics staff with Bowen, formerly Tech's health physicist, are: James A. DeSana, senior engineer and assistant chief quality control engineer with General Motors in Atianta; C. M. Patterson, director of health physics at Dupont's Savannah River Plant; A. Ed Lane, Atlanta at­torney; Dr. C. J. Roberts, head, Frank H. Neely Nuclear Research Center at Tech; John T. Godwin, M.D., special research scientist at Tech who is interested in nuclear medi­cine; Robert L. Zimmerman, Tech radiological safety of­ficer; John R. Wright, Tech senior health physics surveyor; Robert J. Klett, doctoral candidate in radiochemistry at

Tech; and D. Kieth Davis of Tech's Radioisotopes Labora­tory who is responsible for repairing and maintaining the firm's instruments.

Bowen feels Dynatomics has assembled the best possible staff in the Southeast. "And," he adds, "from the stand­point of experience and quality, they are as good as any in the country. Three staff members, Roberts, Zimmerman and Patterson, are certified by the American Board of Health Physics. Patterson was one of the nation's first health physicists, starting at the Oak Ridge operation in 1943. He later was with the health physics program at the Hanford, Wash., AEC plant and established the radiation safety program at the Savannah River Plant. Last year he was president of the International Health Physics Society."

Bowen, DeSana, Lane and Patterson comprise the Dyna­tomics board of directors.

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Photographs — Rick Wisler

In the Kentucky victory, sophomore Stenftnagel (being fouled by Nash, above) was an important man but not as important as R. D. Craddock (below) who won it.

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THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME

HE 1963-64 Tech basketball team is made up of home-folks. At the Alexander Memorial Coliseum the Jackets

are 9-0 including an unbelievable 76-67 upset of the then number one team in the country, Kentucky, on January 4. But on the road, Whack Hyder's boys are a weak 1-6 fol­lowing their first venture on the road against SEC teams.

Leading the pack in the conference as late as 4:00 P.M. on January 25, Tech dropped a 62-79 decision to Kentucky and then followed it with a 63-83 loss to Tennessee on the 27th to set their conference record at 3-2. Other losses on the road included a 79-84 overtime decision to Rice, a 75-97 beating at the hands of SMU, a record-breaking 84-104 trouncing by Wisconsin, and a 59-68 one to Louis­ville.

In Atlanta, the Jackets have looked unbeatable in win­ning over Georgia twice (73-65 and 71-55), Furman (92-69), Georgetown (96-71), Navy (88-73), South Carolina (87-73), Mississippi (69-54) and Mississippi State (59-45).

Nothing in Tech's final year in the SEC (see page 2 of this issue) could ever be as gratifying as Tech's win over Kentucky, the third in a row over the wildcats. That night Tech got out in front early in the second half and with 10:35 remaining in the game had built up a 55-43 lead. R. D. Craddock, the little Kentucky-native guard, was the major instrument of victory with 25 points and a flawless floor game. In the return match in Lexington, Craddock could do nothing right and only a great shooting exhibi­tion (59.6% ) in the first half kept the Jackets in the game. Tech led by two at the half but fell behind early in the second half in an exact reversal of the Atlanta game.

At home Tech is averaging well over 40% in field goal shooting while on the road they are hitting in the thirties and twenties and on the last trip couldn't break 50% from the free throw line. The loss of top reserve. Mick Stenftena-gel, in the late minutes of the Louisville game was the beginning of the latest slump by the Jackets. But Hyder has brought them back from the brink of mediocrity earlier in the season and may be able to do it again.

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The Second

GEORGIA TECH HOLIDAY IN EUROPE

1964

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LEAVE NEW YORK MAY 18, 1964—RETURN NEW YORK JUNE 8, 1964 Be aboard when the second Georgia Tech Holiday Tour of Europe begins. Traveling by scheduled jet airline and touring with the experienced tour lead­ership of Osborne Travel Service, the 21-day trip promises to be as unique a travel opportunity as the first alumni tour in 1962.

The group will fly to Ireland—Killarney and the Lake District . . . . continue to England—Stratford Upon Avon, Windsor and London . . . highlight Denmark— Copenhagen, Tivoli Gardens, Helsinger and Hamlet's castle . . . see quaint Hol­land—flower auction, Rembrandt art,Volendam, cheese farms . . . enjoy France —Paris, Versailles, the Chateau Country . . . bask in the glories and gaiety of Spain—Madrid, El Escorial, Valley of the Fallen, Toledo and bull fights . . . . and finish the tour with the romantic Portugal—Lisbon, Estoril and Sintra. Fly to New York.

The cost? $868. Includes scheduled jet air flight from New York and return, room with bath; meals, tips; etc.

Write for information or clip and mail to: TOM HALL GEORGIA TECH NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSN. Atlanta, Georgia 30332

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Tech receives over $250,000 in grants TWO National Science Foundation grants, a pair of Public Health Service grants, and a contract with the Sandia Corporation were among the new support given Tech in the first month of 1964.

The first NSF grant of $24,000 was for a program of "Research Participation for Col­lege Teachers" under the direction of Dr. James A. Stanfield of the School of Chemistry.

Under this program, at least ten college teachers will be brought to the Tech cam­pus next summer to take part in existing research projects or establish projects of their own. All projects will be supervised by members of Tech's School of Chemistry staff.

The program also carries academic year extensions by which five of the participants will be selected to continue research pro­grams on their own campuses. These pro­jects will also be directed by members of the Tech Chemistry staff.

The other NSF grant was for $35,000 to support research into the ultimate prop­erties of liquids.

This project, under the direction of Dr. Andrew W. Marris, Engineering Mechanics, is entitled "Hygrosteric Phenomena in Thin Films." Hygrosteric implies half-liquid, half-solid.

In the studies, fine measurements will be made of the rigidity properties of thin oils, toluene, and other manifestly normal liquids when sheared in thin films. Results may have practical application in the field of lubrication, and may contribute to an under­standing of the ultimate properties of liquids and of the fundamental laws of nature governing them.

One U. S. Public Health Service grant of $68,566 was awarded for continued support of a Radiation Health Specialist Training Program.

Notification of the grant award also pointed out that additional grants in the amount of $40,000 per year have been tentatively approved for three more years.

The program, under the direction of Dr. C. J. Roberts, head, Frank H. Neely Nu­clear Research Center, is designed to train graduate-level students to handle problems of human exposure to radiation. Emphasis is placed on ionizing radiation, but such studies as the disposal of radioactive wastes, detection of radionuclides in water, and in­dustrial hygiene and toxicology are in­cluded in the program.

Graduate students from all areas of science and engineering can be accepted for training and may work for advanced de­grees in their own fields, but placing em­phasis on radiological health. The basic stipend per month is determined by the academic degree of the student and is tax-exempt. In addition, all standard charges of tuition and fees are paid, as well as an allowance for dependents.

All applications and inquiries should be directed to Dr. Roberts.

A $31,320 U. S. Public Health Service grant was awarded to a Georgia Tech scientist and an Emory assistant professor of medicine for a project aimed at develop­ing special instruments for heart and blood vessel research.

Principal investigators are Frederick Dixon, senior research physicist at Tech's Engineering Experiment Station, and Dr. Robert C. Schlant of Emory University's School of Medicine.

The objective of the work is several new devices and techniques to speed or improve measurements of interest in cardiovascular (heart and associated blood vessels) re­search. Major emphasis will be placed on the use of thermistors and tunnel diodes as sensing elements. Probe devices for certain other cardiovascular measurements are in­cluded in the project objectives.

The grant is an extension of the original award made last year.

The Sandia Corporation contract for $93,325 was for the study of the impact effects on spherical shells which might carry nuclear power units into space.

Dr. Charles E. Stoneking, professor of Engineering Mechanics, who is directing the two-year study, explained why this informa­tion is needed in future space research.

Stoneking said dangerous radiation could be scattered in the event a nuclear propul­sion system or power unit crashed back into the earth and shattered on impact. He added that scientists do not wish to con­taminate the moon or other celestial bodies in similar occurrences.

The research is being conducted with spherical shell models of space craft. These will be fired from an air gun, now under construction, into a steel target and the re­sulting impact effects studied. Speeds under consideration are around 700 to 800 miles an hour.

Alumni Directory to be mailed at last THE mammoth Directory of Graduates and Former Students, originally scheduled for mailing in late November, will finally get into the mail in early March. A series of minor disasters in production, most of them unavoidable, set the publication date back three months.

The directory, 488 pages strong, lists the names of over 37,000 Tech alumni in alphabetical order. It also carries the ad­dresses and job titles of over 28,000 known alumni. A geographical section on those with addresses is also a feature of the di­rectory which should reach you by March 20 if you were a contributor to the 16th Roll Call which ended June 30, 1963.

Two schools add doctorate degree TECH'S young School of Nuclear Engineer­ing and Engineering Mechanics both marked milestones recently when they were given approval to award the doctorate degree.

Dr. William B. Harrison, director of the School of Nuclear Engineering and head of the Nuclear Sciences Research Division at Tech, says the future is bright indeed for Nuclear Engineering graduates.

He pointed to the facts that nuclear energy is now emerging as economically competitive with conventional sources of power and that American space programs are in need of nuclear propulsion systems and nuclear devices to provide stable and maintenance-free power sources in the re­mote reaches of space.

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New short ec schedule released TECH has just announced a series of short courses and conferences scheduled through early fall of 1964. In­formation on additional programs will be announced in future issues of the Alumnus. If you are interested in receiving more information on any of these programs, call or write Director, Short Courses and Conferences, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia 30332. The phone Qumber is Atlanta,,873-4211, Ext. 451.

Second Southeastern Conference on

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics . March 5-6, 1964

Georgia Highway Conference . . March 9-10, 1964

General Engineers Refresher Short Course March 14-April 18, 1964 Fundamentals of Engineering Statistics Short Course . . . . March 16-20, 1964

Use of Plastics in Training Aids March 25-27, 1964

*New Concepts in Quality Control March 30-June 1, 1964

*Second English for International Students . March 30-June 5, 1964

*Management Principles for Foremen and First Line Supervisors . . . March 31-June 2, 1964

Industrial Application of New Technology April 2-3, 1964

^Material Handling Short Course April 7-June 9, 1964

Management Dynamics and Effective Decision Making . . . . April 6-10, 1964

Chief Industrial Engineers Seminar April 16-24, 1964

Advanced Mechanic Vibrations Short Course April 27-May 1, 1964

Protective Relaying Conference . . . May 7-8, 1964

Traffic Engineering Short Course May 11-15, 1964

Research and Development Short Course May 18-22, 1964

Management for Engineers Short Course June 8-12, 1964

Summer English Course for International Students . . June 23-August 21, 1964

Executive Program in Engineering Management . . . . July 6-31, 1964

Professional Recruiting Seminar September 1-3, 1964

Mechanical Vibrations Course October 26-30, 1964

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THE INSTITUTE - continued Harrison defines Nuclear Engineering as

that field of engineering which concerns itself with handling and using radiation in large quantities. "And by radiation," he added, "I mean the radiation that is derived from the nucleus of atoms, particularly gamma rays and neutrons or other types of radiation in this general category."

Harrison said there are no plans at this time for offering an undergraduate program in Nuclear Engineering since the school can draw graduate students from Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and other such typical fields. A number of other schools have contributed students to Tech's Nuclear Engineering program and Harrison has several applications from foreign countries.

The foremost facility at Tech to be used in connection with the Nuclear Engineering activities is the Frank H. Neely Nuclear Re­search Center. This $4.5 million enterprise is now nearing completion on the Tech campus.

"This is truly an excellent facility and a real credit to the State of Georgia," Harri­son said, "and I am sure that the Nuclear Engineering School will make good use of it. It includes a very fine research reactor and a number of laboratories and offices for supporting the research activities."

According to Dr. Milton E. Raville, pro­fessor and director of the School of Engineering Mechanics, the demand in the

United States for persons with advanced training in Engineering Mechanics far ex­ceeds the supply.

"This is especially true," he explained, "with the emphasis on research and develop­ment in American aerospace efforts. We find that our aerospace industries, govern­ment research laboratories, and similar or­ganizations are combing the country for people with this type of training."

Engineering Mechanics encompasses a vast field of work. Efforts range from basic research in fluid mechanics to the internal structure of gigantic missiles and the slosh­ing of fuels.

Raville says that in a restricted sense one may think of Engineering Mechanics as the study of what happens to bodies when forces are applied to them.

"This involves not only the internal stress situations," he explained, "but the motions which result and what happens to the struc­tures that are involved. One tries to bring as many of these forces under a theoretical treatment as possible. Although it will always be necessary to perform experi­ments, we strongly emphasize the applica­tion of mathematical methods to the solu­tion of these problems."

Raville feels that his school at Tech has developed three specialities which are uni­que. These are in space mechanics, in modern continuum mechanics and in non­linear vibration.

"These three areas are active throughout the world currently and our staff is doing an excellent job in building a course struc­ture and research programs in them."

In discussing the relationship of the En­gineering Mechanics program to existing doctorate programs at Tech, Raville said the connections are particularly important to the other mechanically-oriented graduate programs in Aerospace, Mechanical, and Civil engineering.

"Graduate work in these schools depends very heavily on a broad and strong back­ground in fundamental mechanics. Conse­quently, many of the graduate students in these areas take graduate courses in our department. As a result of this combining of studies, we get a feedback at the re­search level and find that more and more of our research programs will involve faculty members from other schools."

Raville pointed out that around three full years of graduate work are required to constitute a minimum for earning the Ph.D. "Many of our students take longer than this because they are 'doing part time research and teaching. I estimate we will grant our first doctorate no later than lune, 1965. Three students are now ready to start their doctoral dissertations."

Tech graduate student receives top fellowship

DELBERT TESAR, Georgia Tech doctoral stu­dent in mechanical engineering, has been awarded a North Atlantic Treaty Organiza­tion Post-doctoral Fellowship in Science to continue study and research in Europe for a period of 12 months.

This NATO post-doctoral fellowship, administered by the National Science Foun­dation, is a part of a program to promote

the progress of science and to assist in ob­taining a closer collaboration among scientists of various nations.

Mr. Tesar plans to start his fellowship in September, and will do research studies in theoretical kinematics under the personal supervision of Professor W. Wunderlich, Director of the Institute of Geometry at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna.

Before coming to Georgia Tech, Mr. Tesar was graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1958 in mechanical engi­neering, and in 1960 received a master of science degree in engineering mechanics. From 1957 to 1959 he was an instructor in engineering mechanics at the University of Nebraska and taught applied mechanics at Kansas State University from 1959 to 1961. In addition to his doctoral studies at Geor­gia Tech, he has served as a part time lecturer in mechanical engineering under the sponsorship of a Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowship.

Tech-Georgia fund sets new record

THE Joint Tech-Georgia Development Fund closed its 1963 campaign for corporate aid to help alumni supplement faculty salaries at Tech and Georgia on a high note of re­turns, with contributions from 872 business firms amounting to $327,209, and exceeding the campaign goal by $2,209.

In addition to 132 new contributors and an increase of $16,784 over 1962, the 1963 figure further swelled to $1,918,662 the total raised through the Joint Fund pro­gram since its inception in 1956.

A. H. Sterne, Georgia alumnus, and W. C. Wardlaw, Tech alumnus, co-chair­men of the 1963 drive, expressed them­selves as being "extremely pleased with the results, and deeply grateful for the excellent support given this program by business and industry throughout its eight years of operation."

The Fund is a state-wide volunteer or­ganization which solicits corporate aid to support the alumni program of supple­menting professors' salaries at Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia. It was formed in 1956 by the combined founda­tions of the two schools in an effort to off­set the high rate of faculty losses, which had reached alarming proportions during the 1945-55 decade. In addition to its primary purpose of curbing faculty losses, the Fund assumed a second mission: to help acquire and insure the maintenance of scholarly standards at the two schools.

The success of the project can be measured in both ways, according to the presidents of both colleges. Dr. O. C. Ader-hold of the University and Dr. E. D. Harri­son of Tech. Faculty turnover has been reduced from over 20 per cent to around 7 per cent. This school year 374 faculty members are receiving salary supplements, 199 at the University and 175 at Tech.

Through the creation of stable, produc­tive faculties, both Tech and Georgia are now reaping such collateral benefits as ex­panded and improved programs of educa­tion, special grants for research and equip­ment, additional graduate programs as well as nation-wide academic prestige.

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' f l 1 ' • Wayne Moore, Sr. died September U l 28 at his home, 3520 Main Street,

College Park, Georgia. He is survived by his widow.

» j n Robert L. (Bedie) Bidez, TE, died I fc January 8 in Mobile, Alabama fol­

lowing a short illness. Elwyn White Tomlinson died January 14

in an Atlanta hospital. He had been presi­dent of Capital Automobile Company since 1932. His widow lives at 2998 Habersham Road, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia.

M C O. B. Lienau died unexpectedly I d December 10. His widow's address

is Route 1, Apex, North Carolina.

M R Richard Battle, formerly of Atlanta. I 0 was killed in an automobile wreck in

California January 12. He was a retired officfal of Douglas Aircraft Corporation.

Tom Blake, Coral Gables, Florida, died in January. No further information was available at this writing.

»1Q Richard H. Biggers died July 31, 1 0 1963. He was with the Army Corps

of Engineers at the time of his death. His widow lives at 644 Stratford Place, Toledo, Ohio.

Herbert A. Carroll, EE, died Decem­ber 18. He was associated with Otis

Elevator for 35 years. His widow lives at 3845 Greenbriar Drive, Dallas, Texas.

'21 John R. Kruse, ME, died November ' 21 in Dunedin, Florida. He had been

with Combustion Engineering in Chat­tanooga for 37 years. After retiring in 1960, he resided in Dunedin, Florida.

' O C Ben R. Gordon, Com, has been ap-fcJ pointed a director of J. J. New­

berry Company. He is President of the White House, a San Francisco, California department store.

Vonnie Legree Jacobs, EE, died of a heart attack October 2. He had been with Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Com­pany for 38 years. His widow lives at 1389 Rogers Avenue, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia.

Stephen C. May, manufacturer's agent in Atlanta, died January 18. His widow lives at 3551 Ivy Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia.

" J C Henry Harrison Eagar, Jr., ME, died fcO in December after a lengthy illness.

His entire career was in the cotton textiles business. His widow lives on Aladdin Road. Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.

B. E. Thrasher, Auditor for the State of Georgia, died January 8 after a long ill­ness. He had been with the State Depart­ment since 1927. His widow lives at 665 Longley Drive, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia.

I f l Q Edwin Durham, ME, died unex-fcO pectedly November 10. He was a

production specialist in the boiler division at Babcock & Wilcox in Barberton, Ohio. His widow lives at 681 Drake Drive, Wads-worth, Ohio.

Charles M. Gay, CE, died in an Atlanta hospital December 22 of injuries received in an accident He was with the Right-of-Way Department, Georgia State Highway in Atlanta for 18 years. His widow lives at Newborn, Georgia.

' Q Q Captain Jack W. Slaton, Sr., retired 00 Delta Air Lines pilot, died Decem­

ber 20 in Miami, Florida. He was a Delta pilot for 23 years.

Frederick G. Storey, President of Storey Theatres in Atlanta, has accepted member­ship on the National Commission on Standards and Accreditation for Agencies serving the blind. He is Vice President of Community Services for the Blind.

' Q E John M. Cheatham, President of OO Dundee Mills, Griffin, Georgia, will

serve as Deputy Chairman, Federal Re­serve Bank of Atlanta for 1964.

R. I. (Rube) Gunnell died January 6. He was with Blalock Machinery Company. Mr. Gunnell's widow lives at 815 Windsor Parkway, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia.

' Q C Dr. Frederick S. Barkalow, Jr., 0 0 Chem, has been asked to serve on

the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Ad­visory Committee on Multiple Use of the National Forests. He is Professor of Zo­ology at North Carolina State College, Raleigh, North Carolina.

' Q f l William D. Hughs, Jr., recently an-0 0 nounced the opening of Service In­

surance Agency with offices at 4526 Office Park Drive, Jackson, Mississippi.

' / I 1 Dominic Danna, ChE, has been ap­pointed manager of foreign manu­

facturing for Monsanto Chemical Com­pany's Organic Chemicals Division, St. Louis, Missouri.

Lee T. Kendrick died January 29. He was credit manager for the Gulf Oil Com­pany, Southern Region. He had been with Gulf since 1924. His widow lives at 4605 Angelo Drive, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia.

Robert L. Lance, Chem, died at his home in December after a brief illness. He was with DuPont at the Savannah River Plant.

Oscar M. Price died unexpectedly of a heart attack December 9. He was a manu­facturers representative. Mr. Price is sur­vived by his widow and three children; who live at 3825 South Cove, Birmingham, Alabama.

1A O Chester Courtney, IM, Vice Presi-Hfc dent of Anning Johnson Company,

has moved to the Chicago office. He lives at 836 South Park, Hinsdale, Illinois.

» A Q William O. Cobb died May 30, 1963. H O His widow lives in Villa Rica, Geor­

gia. N. Barnard Murphy has been appointed

regional manager in charge of the office of Goodbody & Company, a member of the New York Stock Exchange. He will be responsible for the offices in Atlanta, Athens, Charlotte and Huntsville.

»A C C. R. Minors has been promoted to TTw Assistant to the Vice President and

General Manager of the Georgia Power Company in Atlanta. He has been with the company for 17 years.

' / I Q Walter D. Pittman, AE, has been H O named staff engineer in the struc­

tures and materials department of the Spacecraft Sciences Subdivision at Aero­space Corporation, El Sequndo, California.

Kenneth E. Rhodes, EE, has been pro­moted to Senior Engineer, Terminals and Printers Development with IBM, Endicott, New York. He has been with IBM since 1952.

Richard Morgan Wheeler, EE, died December 14, 1963. His widow's mailing address is RR 2, Box 397-A, Oxford, Pennsylvania.

' A Q F' H' Woodruff' EE> n a s b e e n aP_

T T O pointed to the new position of field sales manager, utility distributor and agent sales with Allis-Chalmers with headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri.

'50 Carl H. Fulton is now with Ruff Realty Company, 3131 Maple Drive,

N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. He was formerly with Fulton Brothers Electric Company.

Maj. Joseph P. Gleason, USAF, IM, has been awarded the U. S. Air Force Com­mendation Medal for Meritorious service as chief of the policy branch at Head­quarters, MATS. The award was made at Scott AFB, Illinois.

David L. Smith, USAF, EE, is assigned to the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB. His address is 3720 Honey­suckle Road, Montgomery, Alabama.

' J » 1 "̂ Wm R-abern> ChE, has been pro-w I moted to Head, Quality Engineering

Department at Thiokol Chemical Corpora­tion's Wasatch Division at Brigham City, Utah.

» E O Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Jerome J. w Z Krochmal, CerE, twin daughters,

Linda Gail and Frances Lynn, December 15. They live at 1641 Layton Drive, Day­ton, Ohio.

Charles W. Wilson, IM, is now manager of Warner Robbins, Georgia and Peach County District for Southern Bell.

>CQ Engaged: Thad John London, IM, 00 to Miss Lynda Freeman. Mr. Lan-

don is district plant supervisor with Ameri­can T & T in Jackson, Mississippi.

Grady R. Swords, Jr. died January 6 after a brief illness. He was with the U. S.

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The man in the relaxed position is working. Working hard. He's an engineer operating a velocity pickup or "prober" to measure and analyze the chassis shake and bending characteristics produced in the laboratory by a special shake rig. With this equipment, he can simulate the roughest, bumpiest washboard road you'll ever travel. He can compress years of jouncing into just a few hours and repeat the experiment under identical conditions time and time again. It's only one of the exhaustive tests designed to make your General Motors car a better riding, more comfortable car.

This engineer's job is something special—simple to state, difficult to do: improve existing products and develop new ones. He and thousands of GM engineers and trained technicians are aiming for this goal every day of the year.

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All told, there are 19,850 engineers and scientists at General Motors. Five hundred colleges and universities are represented, extending from the east coast to the west coast and most states in between.

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Clifton B. Wilburn, 78, president of Southeast­ern Factors Corp., has been named vice presi­dent of American Dis­count Co., Charlotte, N. C. He will be in charge of all factoring, leasing and other com­mercial financing activ­ities. Wilburn will con­tinue as president of Southeastern Factors.

Charles L. Willard, Jr., "il, has been promoted to chief engineer of Sloss and Brittain, San Fran­cisco. He will be respon­sible for application engineering connected with the introduction of Screwstick and Countr-bor lines in the western technical market.

Edward C. Solomon, '33, former director of field work at Sarah Law­rence College, and a member of the Social Science faculty there for eighteen years, has been appointed to the post of executive director of Morningside Heights, Inc. a cooperative group of institutions.

Howard B. Johnson, '34, president of the Atlantic Steel Company was re­cently named Georgia State College's first out­standing Alumnus of the Year at the 50th Anni­versary Homecoming. Johnson graduated from Georgia Tech's Evening School of Commerce cum laude.

L. B. Barnes, '42, has been appointed vice-president and controller of Bell Industries, Inc. Bell Industries, with plants in Dalton and Calhoun, Georgia, is one of the nation's largest manufacturers of carpeting, rugs, bed­spreads, and bathmats.

Edgar W. Kopp, '45, recently was appointed Assistant Dean of Aca­demic Affairs at the Uni­versity of Florida. Kopp has served for the past five years as assistant dean of the College of Engineering. Before go­ing to Florida, Kopp held numerous positions with Ford plants.

NEWS BY CLASSES - continued

Government in the Bureau of Public Roads in Tallahassee, Florida. He is survived by his widow and two daughters.

' R A William B. Bryan, Jr., IM, has been * * " named manager of the Georgia

Branch Office of American Air Filter Com­pany. His office is at 1430 West Peachtree, Atlanta, Georgia.

Born to : Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Davis, ChE, a daughter, Stephanie Lynn, December 14. Mr. Davis is a sales develop­ment engineer with the Aluminum Com­pany of America. They live at 9 Briarwood Drive, Belleville, Illinois.

' C C Jorge A. Martinez, ME, is a part v J owner and Director of Engineering

of Industrial Consultants de Mexico, SA, Atenas 56-201, Mexico 6, D. F .

Cecil R. Phillips, IE, has been elected executive vice president of Management Science Atlanta. His business address is 1430 West Peachtree, Atlanta, Georgia.

James V. Walters, CE, has received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Uni-veristy of Florida and is now Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the Uni­versity of Alabama. Dr. and Mrs. Walters and their two sons live at 51 Southmont Drive, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

' C C Charles W. O'Rear, Jr., TE, is a J O teaching fellow at East Carolina

College's Division of Science, Greenville, South Carolina.

Married: Theodore Wirtz, IM, to Miss Barbara Scott, December 28. Mr. Wirtz is with National Carbon. They live at 6200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh 37, Pennsylvania.

' E l Capt. James P. Henry, USAF, IM, J ' has graduated from the U. S. Air

Force Squadron Officer School at the Air University, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. He is now assigned to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.

James C. Edenfield, IE, formerly director of Industrial Engineering with Manage­ment Science Atlanta, has been promoted to Vice President. His business address is 1430 West Peachtree, Atlanta, Georgia.

Robert E. Jenkins, EE, has been ap­pointed project engineer-manager in Radar Engineering at IBM's Space Guidance Cen­ter, Owego, New York.

Wade T. Mitchell, TE, has been pro­moted to Assistant Treasurer at the Trust Company of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia.

Vincent K. Smith, USA, Math, has been promoted to major while serving at Head­quarters, U. S. Army Communications Zone, Orleans, France.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt Wood, IE, a daughter, Mary Helen, November 11 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

' C O Born to : Mr. and Mrs. George W. J O Atwood, Jr., IM, a daughter, Lisa

Jean, November 5. Mr. Atwood is with Crucible Steel Company of America. They live at 3269 Oakcliff Road, Doraville, Georgia.

Glenn D. Falcon, EE, is working in ionospheric research at the National Bu­reau of Standards, Boulder, Colorado. He is working toward his PhD in Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics at the University of Colorado.

Albert I. McCowan, Jr., IM, is now Ex­ecutive Vice President of the Bank of Fort Valley, Georgia.

Hans Muller-Traut, exchange student from Stuttgart, visited the Tech campus in November. He is with IBM World Trade. His current address is Stuttgart-Schonberg, Birkheekenstr 111, Germany.

Capt. Jerry H. Nabors, USAF, IM, is a pilot with a unit of the Alaskan Air Com­mand. He is stationed at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska.

Born to : Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Pirkle, IE, a son, Mark Lanier. November 16. Mr. Pirkle is a field sales representative with Dow Chemical Company. They live at 135 Hillcrest Lane, Willingboro, New Jersey.

Thomas J. Rabern, IM, has been pro­moted to staff manager with Peninsular Insurance Companies, Ltd., Fort Lauder­dale, Florida. He lives at 6536 S.W. 26th Street, Miramar, Florida.

R. George Rollins, IM, has been trans­ferred by the Boeing Company from Cape Canaveral to the New Orleans plant as Senior Tool Engineer. His home address is 4624 Francis Drive, New Orleans, Louisi-

' C Q Robert G. Barrow, IM, has been J 3 elected vice president and treasurer

of Polyco, Inc., Smyrna, Georgia. William W. Emmett, CE, is a research

assistant to the chief hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington 25, D. C.

Married: Edward Henry Girard, III, CerE, to Miss Lyndell Nicholson, January 18. Mr. Girard is a research engineer with Texas Instruments in Attleboro, Mas­sachusetts.

Stephen R. Grayson, IE, has been ad­mitted to the bar of the District of Colum­bia. He is engaged in the practice of patent, trademark and copyright law with Jacobi, Davidson & Jacobi, 970 National Press Building, Washington, D. C.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Byron Y. Hill, ChE, a son, Bruce Alban, November 19. Byron is a chemical engineer with Union Carbide. They live at 834 Wildwood Circle, St. Albans, West Virginia.

David M. Meyer, IM, has joined the Atlanta office of Francis I. DuPont, one of the nation's leading investment firms, as a registered representative. He lives at 1464 Bates Court, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia.

Norris E. Taylor is now a senior in­dustrial engineer with the Maxwell House Division of General Foods Corporation. He lives at 6032 Kellow Drive, Jacksonville, Florida.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. William R. Wells, AE, a son, William Ward, December 7. Bill is attending Harvard where he is com­pleting requirements for a PhD in Applied Math. They live at 135 Oxford Street, Apartment 2, Cambridge, Massachusetts,

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tjoces in tf)e Kews Clinton M. Crabtree, '48, recently was pro­moted to manager, Ad­vanced Programs, air­craft, at the IBM Space Guidance Center. He joined IBM in 1950 as a customer engineer. Since then Crabtree has served as an instructor and a field engineer.

Clinton L. Lewis, Jr., '48, has been named Purchasing Agent of the Refractories Division of the Babcock & Wilcox Company. His office will be located in the Au­gusta Plant. Before the promotion Lewis was assistant manager of the Production Control Department.

A. Roland Holt, '52, has been promoted to fill the newly created position of district en­gineer, Minneapolis dis­trict by Armco Steel Corporat ion 's Metal Products Division. Mov­ing from the Ohio head­quarters, Holt has been with Armco for eight years.

/ . Clinton Hundley, '56, has been promoted to Gemini Technical Man­ager at IBM's Space Guidance Center. Hund­ley joined IBM in 1956 as a junior Engineer. His most recent assign­ment was technical con­trol administrator in the Gemini Project Office.

Duane L. Hoover, '59, Manager of the Methods and Systems Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has been elected to the post of Assistant Cashier. He has been with the bank since 1961 when he join­ed Methods and^ystems as a methods analyst.

William W. Wiggins, '62, has just completed a six-months' training pro­gram with the Babcock & Wilcox Company. He has been assigned to the field service engineering department of the boiler division in Atlanta.

NEWS BY CLASSES -continued

William Wallace "Walley" Eidson, W Jr., IE, died December 21 in an

Atlanta hospital. He had been ill for several months. His parents live at 7540 Mt. Vernon Road, Dunwoody, Georgia.

William Graves, Math, has been elected to the board of directors of Management Science Atlanta, 1430 West Peachtree, At­lanta, Georgia.

Engaged: Kenneth F. Leddick, Jr., CE, to Miss Barbara Lewis. They will be married February 1 in Richmond, Virginia.

Engaged: Frank H. Maier, Jr., IM, to Miss Catherine Croft. The wedding will take place in May. Mr. Maier is with Maier and Berkele Jewelers, Atlanta.

Married: Thomas M. Mitchell, II, IM, to Miss Carolyn Carroll, December 21 . Mr. Mitchell is manager of the North, South Carolina factory of Stone Manufacturing Company. They live at 701-B Barnwell Street, Columbia, South Carolina.

Engaged: Edgar Adams Neely, III, IE, to Miss Marion Elizabeth Evans. The wedding will take place February 1. Mr. Neely is studying law at the University of Virginia.

Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Dan H. Norton, Jr., USA, a daughter, Catherine Marie, December 2. Lt. Norton is ADPS Plans and Operations Officer at Tobyhanna Army Depot, Pennsylvania.

Robert G. Reeves, IM, is now plant engineer with the Clorox Company. His mailing address is Route 11, Box 191, Charlotte, North Carolina.

Married: Barry Sugarman, Arch, to Miss Penny Goldman, December 14. Mr. Sugar-man is with Smith & Korach, Architects. They live at 1940 Bay Street, Apartment 19, Miami Beach, Florida.

Married: James K. Wilson, AE, to Miss Dorothy M. Sneed, June 1. Mr. Wilson is a designer with Pratt and Whitney Air­craft Company. They live at 344 Caroline Drive, West Palm Beach, Florida.

Married: Charles Chesser Bleakley, " ' EE, to Miss Martha Johnson, Febru­

ary 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. Born to: Lt. and Mrs. Robert B. Burnette,

a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, January 7, at Fort George Meade, Maryland.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. William Burson, Jr., ME, a daughter, Elizabeth Wyatt, October 28. Mr. Burson is chief project engineer with Southwire Company in Car-rollton, Georgia.

Born to : Mr. and Mrs. David T. Pegg, IM, a son, Richard Keith, December 26. David is assistant to the chief engineer at the Communicable Disease Center. They live at 464 Susan Creek Drive, Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Pirkle, IE, a daughter, Lori Lynn, June 9, 1963. Mr. Pirkle is a project coordinator at Lockheed in Marietta, Georgia.

Richard F. Ward, IE, has been elected secretary of Management Science Atlanta. His business address is 1430 West Peach-tree, Atlanta, Georgia.

Married: Ens. Lovic David Wheeless, II, USN, CE, to Miss Mary Cook, February

14. He is stationed at USN Public Works Center, Subic Bay, Philippine Islands.

' C O Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Lenzo *)*• Chavis, EE, a daughter, Cynthia

Lynn, December 10. They live at 405 Bradford Road, Lakeview Shores, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Born to: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hanna, CE, a son, Tod Adrian, November 6. Mr. Hanna is a project engineer with Con­tinental Pipeline Company. As a first-year employee, he was responsible for the de­sign and construction of a $4 million pro­ject connected with the largest privately-financed construction job in U. S. history: a petroleum products pipeline running from Texas to New York. They live at 2720 General Buckner, Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Lt. Foster W. Harrison, USAF, IE, has been assigned to Homestead AFB, Florida following completion of the U. S. Air Force advanced training course for SAC combat crews at Castle AFB, California.

Lt. Monte W. Hartsell, USAF, IM, has been awarded his silver wings following graduation from U. S. Air Force Navi­gator training at James Connally AFB, Texas and is now assigned to Mather AFB, California.

Married: David Edward Tate, ME, to Miss Jane Johnston, December 27. They live at 433 Driftwood Road, North Palm Beach, Florida.

Lt. Thomas H. Wedaman, Jr., USAF, EE, is serving with the Air Force Systems Com­mand Unit at Patrick AFB, Florida.

• C O Lt. Fielding L. Dillard, Jr., USAF, **** IM, has been awarded his pilot wings

following graduation from flying training at Moody AFB, Georgia and is now as­signed to Columbus AFB, Mississippi.

Lt. Don House, USA, is attending the ARADCOM CBRO course at Fort McClel-lan, Alabama. Following graduation he will return to his permanent station in Homestead, Florida. His mailing address is 1330 Old Dixie Highway, Homestead, Florida.

Richard G. Karr, ME, has completed a six months training program with Babcock & Wilcox and has been assigned to the field engineering service department of the boiler division headquarters, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Lt. David M. Moglia, USA, IM, has com­pleted a nine week orientation course at the Army Chemical Center, Fort McClel-lan, Alabama.

Engaged: Fred Foster Rudder, Jr., AE, to Miss Cecilia Timmona. The wedding will take place March 27 in Atlanta. Mr. Rudder is attending graduate school at Georgia Tech.

Engaged: Lt. Stuart Arnold Mead, USA, IM, to Miss Mary Mead Andrew. The wedding will take place in April. Lt. Mead is stationed at Edgewood, Maryland.

}CA Lt. John M. Dollar, USA, IM, has **' completed a nine week officer

orientation course at the Army Chemical Center, Fort McClellan, Alabama.

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